|
|
Reverse Search
Reverse Search allows you to search within the full text of dictionary entries for words, word parts, and phrases.
Search for entries that contain:
Exact matches of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or the word "orange."
Any form of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or "apples" or "orange" or "oranges."
Exact matches of all of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" and the word "orange."
The exact sequence of words and/or characters entered in the search box (for example, a fragment of a word, a single word, multiple words, or even a phrase containing punctuation)
Example: Searching for "a variety of apple" identifies all entries that contain that phrase. Searching for "app" identifies all entries that contain the letters "app," such as occurrences of "apple," "application," and "apply."
Search within these fields:
Optional:
Limit by part of speech:
| bank holiday |
an official holiday in the UK, when banks and other businesses are closed. |
| Boxing Day |
December 26, a holiday in the UK and other Commonwealth countries, publicly observed on the first weekday after Christmas. |
| Canada Day |
a Canadian legal holiday on July 1, celebrating the anniversary of the formation of the Dominion in 1867; formerly Dominion Day. |
| Christmas |
this day as a legal holiday and an occasion for greetings and gift-giving. [1/3 definitions] |
| Cinco de Mayo |
the fifth of May, a Mexican holiday commemorating the Mexican army's 1862 victory over the French army at the Battle of Puebla and celebrating Mexican unity and independence. |
| Columbus Day |
a U.S. holiday, usu. observed on the second Monday in October, that commemorates Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New World. |
| eve |
(sometimes cap.) the evening or day before a special day such as a holiday. [1/3 definitions] |
| evergreen |
(pl.) branches or sprigs of evergreen plants, used in certain holiday decorations. [1/3 definitions] |
| festival |
a day or more of celebration to commemorate a notable occasion, such as a religious holiday. [1/4 definitions] |
| greeting card |
a card that is imprinted with a design or picture and often a verse, sent on a holiday or special occasion to a friend, relative, or the like. |
| Guy Fawkes Day |
November 5, a holiday in the UK on the anniversary of Guy Hawkes' failed attempt in 1605 to blow up the House of Lords, celebrated with bonfires and fireworks. |
| holiday |
designed for a holiday. [1/5 definitions] |
| Independence Day |
a U.S. national holiday celebrated on July 4 in commemoration of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence from England in 1776; Fourth of July. |
| Juneteenth |
the anniversary and celebration of the day, June 19, 1865, on which the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states was announced in Texas by Union Army forces. Before this date, slaves in Texas, part of the Confederacy, had no way of knowing that they had been freed on January 1, 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation; thus, June 19th, now a Federal holiday, is celebrated each year in commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. Technically, all slaves became free in the United States upon the adoption of the 13th Amendment at the end of 1865. The amendment abolished slavery everywhere, including in those slave-owning states that had not joined the Confederacy. |
| King's Birthday |
in the UK and much of the Commonwealth, a public holiday on the second Saturday in June to officially celebrate the monarch's birthday when the monarch is a king. |
| Labor Day |
the first Monday in September, a legal holiday observed in Canada and the United States to honor the labor of working people. |
| legal holiday |
a holiday established by law and usu. celebrated by the closing of government offices, banks, and schools, and sometimes businesses and factories. |
| Lincoln's Birthday |
a U.S. national holiday observed on February 12 commemorating the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln. |
| Martin Luther King Day |
a U.S. national holiday observed on the third Monday of January commemorating the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| May Day |
the first day of May, celebrated traditionally by a dance around a Maypole and the crowning of a May queen, and recently established in some countries as a holiday in honor of international labor. |
| Memorial Day |
a U.S. legal holiday to honor deceased soldiers, usu. officially observed on the last Monday in May. |
|
|